Calling Cards
 Back to Session IV

Step I:  Your Natural Preferences:  note items from the bulleted lists below that fit, might fit, and definitely don't fit your gifts and talents

What gift do I naturally give to others?

Step II:  Your Five Most Natural Preferences:  select top five "fits" from step I

What gift do I most enjoy giving to others?

Step III:  Your Single Most Natural Preference:  select from step II's top five fits list

What gift have I most often given to others?

Step IV:  Your Calling Card:  study your top card; tweak as needed including language from other top cards

Step V:  Make a Call:  discuss your card with a close friend or family member

Step VI:  Imagine a Call:  list 3-4 work possibilities that fit your calling card

Step VII:  Heed the Call:  "What's one thing--a little thing--you could do right now to express your calling at work?  What's stopping you?"

Realistic
  • Building Things
  • Fixing Things
  • Growing Things
  • Making Things Work
  • Shaping Environments
  • Solving Problems
 Conventional
  • Doing the Numbers
  • Getting Things Right
  • Operating Things
  • Organizing Things
  • Processing Things
  • Straightening Things Up
Investigative
  • Advancing Ideas
  • Analyzing Information
  • Discovering Resources
  • Investigating Things
  • Getting to the Heart of Matters
  • Making Connections
  • Putting the Pieces Together
  • Researching Things
  • Translating Things
 Enterprising
  • Bringing Out Potential
  • Empowering Others
  • Exploring the Way
  • Making Deals
  • Managing Things
  • Opening Doors
  • Persuading People
  • Selling Intangibles
  • Starting Things
Social
  • Awakening Spirit
  • Bringing Joy
  • Building Relationships
  • Creating Dialogue
  • Creating Trust
  • Facilitating Change
  • Getting Participation
  • Giving Care
  • Healing Wounds
  • Helping Overcome Obstacles
  • Instructing People
  • Resolving Disputes
 Artistic
  • Adding Humor
  • Breaking Molds
  • Creating Things
  • Composing Themes
  • Designing Things
  • Moving Through Space
  • Performing Events
  • Seeing Possibilities
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Writing Things

Physical calling cards available from the Inventure Group store.

Pp. 35-40 reprinted with permission of the publisher.  From WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK copyright © (supply year from publication)  by Richard Leider, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA.  All rights reserved.  www.bkconnection.com